GRR Reviews Pulling Home (Second Chance) by Mary Campisi

Audra left her hometown with a husband and a daughter in her belly. And for the next nine years, she is content. But when her husband died suddenly, Audra is forced to return to her hometown to confront the past she left behind, the legacy of her mother's "loose" morals, and all the secrets she thought she kept hidden... // Jack is a pediatric neurosurgeon who's about to be engaged when he had to attend his brother's funeral... and watch Audra back in town with daughter. He forgave his brother for taking a woman that should have been his, but he still can't forgive Audra... // When Audra's daughter was found to have a congenital spinal condition, Jack turned out to be the only person that can save the girl, and Audra will be forced to reveal the secret that she had kept that will change both of them forever.

The story got a bit too melodramatic by the end, as Audra had to track down how she got born (i.e. who impregnated her mother way back when, since it was a scandal back then too, apparently mother never revealed who the father was and it may have been raped, or with a married man...) how mother's suicide shaped her life, how her investigations turned the town upside down, while Jack tried to figure out whether Audra really loved him back when (technically, he left her, something about not needing a distraction for medical school) he changed his mind, turned back, only to find Audra "eloped" with his brother, which obviously did not sit well with his family. But was Audra trying to gold dig into his family, or is his brother trying to "protect" him? I like the drama, but it gets a bit too angst-y.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Family secrets and lies, and a daughter forced to return and confront the truth... and her old lover

Overall Rating: 4/5

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